True, though at the same time many other helis have rocket CCIP so it’s not really necessary to rush with them. Of course, rocket sniping isn’t a guarantee but if you tag some tanks and your team klls them you’ll at least get some assists, and if you get a kill or two all the better.
As for using helis with no ccip, well, that is trickier. Other than trying to play sneakily your options are limited. Nothing for it currently.
As for the clouds, yeah, I don’t remember if they fixed that yet.
I’ve dodged a few, but it’s never a guarantee. Other than reaction speed, distance is also a big factor.
Rocket sniping… pure lottery with a good CCIP mark as in russian cockpits, but 3rd view ccip is probably not accurate enough for >3km, and requires map designs a lot
Helis are nowhere sneaky with the sound, yet there’s no other options. All roof mg and rh202s will be pointing at you 2 secs after pop up.
As for rocket sniping, I’ve had success in my Cobras even at range - Though yes it is a dice roll since they lose accuracy at distance but worst case scenario if you don’t net any crits or kills you can RTB to rearm and try again compared to rushing in which is a guaranteed death.
That doesn’t create a fun nor balanced gameplay loop. It’s even worse in rain where air vehicles can barely see but ground units are unaffected. And before anybody cries about it, I play plenty of SPAA and it’s not fun having targets that are oblivious to a threat because the rendering of weather is significantly different.
The vast majority of 2.7-6.7 games have a Yak, Zero, or Spitfire performing CAP.
There’s not much above that due to how OP SPAA is 7.3+ leading to very few players spawning planes. I still bring out my F-106A and F-16A most matches, both are good for chopper hunting.
I never stated otherwise - I simply stated that skill gap between a decent CAS player and a decent AA player is enormous given the operational requirements in game.
Keep trying to avoid my point by posting snarky non-sequiturs.
Sorry - flying CAS is not as hard as you are making it out to be. Countering with AA is significantly more difficult in most cases. That’s why you are seeing AA going to AT roles.
Anyway, I don’t want to play the plane between 8.7 and 9.7 now. Because air defense vehicles have radar and missiles, and many CAS do not even have bomb landing points and rocket landing points.
